03424oam 2200553Ia 450 991077773000332120231023184353.01-4384-2533-31-4416-0869-9(CKB)1000000000755966(OCoLC)320967720(CaPaEBR)ebrary10588786(SSID)ssj0000153010(PQKBManifestationID)12046371(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153010(PQKBWorkID)10393185(PQKB)11363469(MiAaPQ)EBC3408236(Au-PeEL)EBL3408236(CaPaEBR)ebr10588786(EXLCZ)99100000000075596620080627h20092009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFairy tales a new history /Ruth B. BottigheimerAlbany, N.Y. :Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press,c2009.©20091 online resource (vii, 152 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-4384-2523-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-144) and index.Why a new history of fairy tales? -- Two accounts of the Grimm's tales : the folk as creator, the book as source -- The late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century layers : Perrault, Lhéritier, and their successors -- The two inventors of fairy tale tradition : Giambattista Basile (1634-1636) and Giovan Francesco Straparola (1551, 1553) -- A new history.This work overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission. Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral traditions of peasants and were recorded for posterity by the Brothers Grimm during the nineteenth century. The author overturns this view in this account of the origins of these well loved stories. Charles Perrault created Cinderella and her fairy godmother, but no countrywoman whispered this tale into Perrault's ear. Instead, his Cinderella appeared only after he had edited it from the book of often amoral tales published by Giambattista Basile in Naples. Distinguishing fairy tales from folktales and showing the influence of the medieval romance on them, the author documents how fairy tales originated as urban writing for urban readers and listeners. Working backward from the Grimms to the earliest known sixteenth-century fairy tales of the Italian Renaissance, she argues for a book based history of fairy tales. The first new approach to fairy tale history in decades, this book answers questions about where fairy tales came from and how they spread, illuminating a narrative process long veiled by surmise and assumption.Fairy talesHistory and criticismFolk literatureHistory and criticismFairy talesHistory and criticism.Folk literatureHistory and criticism.398.209Bottigheimer Ruth B1474068MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777730003321Fairy tales3840301UNINA